Iran recently accused America of creating ISIS. True, I won't deny it. But, how about the same Mullahs that kills juveniles for no reason.
Despite signing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran, according to human rights groups, is the world's largest executioner of juvenile offenders. As of May 2009, there were at least 137 known juvenile offenders awaiting execution in Iran, but the total number could be much higher as many death penalty cases in Iran are believed to go unreported. Of the 43 child offenders recorded as having been executed since 1990, 11 were still under the age of 18 at the time of their execution while the others were either kept on death row until they had reached 18 or were convicted and sentenced after reaching that age. Including at least one 13-year-old and 14-year-old.
Let me take you back whom among those executed made it to the global media but forgotten forever, to appease Iran altogether:
Atefah Sahaleeh-a teenage girl hanged to death after being forced to admit a crime she never did. What is it? Having an illicit relationship with a former revolutionary guard who raped and tortured her for 3 years. During the case and sensing she will lose it, she removed her hijab and the judge put the loose on her neck during the execution.
Delara Darabi-was an Iranian Gilaki woman who was sentenced to death after having been convicted of murdering her father's female cousin in 2003. Although Delara initially claimed that she had committed the crime, she subsequently recanted and explained that her older boyfriend, Amir Hossein, had persuaded her to lie about the incident to protect him. According to Delara and other sources familiar with the case, Amir Hossein was the person who had committed the murder in an attempt to steal from a wealthy member of the Darabi family. Darabi served five years of a prison sentence for theft on death row after her conviction. (In Iran, prisoners often have to serve time in prison before execution.) She initially confessed, but later recanted, claiming her boyfriend, Amir Hossein, persuaded her to confess by convincing her that he would be executed (as she would not have been in most places, being a minor; but this was not the case in Iran).
Behnam Zare-was hanged in Shiraz for murdering, at the age of 15, another youth during a fight about a bird. Evidently about 19 when he was finally put to death, Zare was hanged without any prior notice to his lawyer or his family. A recording of Zare’s voice in what turned out to be his last call with his lawyer, pleading “I want to stay alive. Please, please I want to stay alive,” was used to open a 2008 documentary against executing juvenile offenders.
Mona Mahmudnizhad-was an Iranian Bahá'í who, in 1983, together with nine other Bahá'í women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her membership in the Bahá'í Faith. The official charges ranged from “misleading children and youth” because she was teaching children who had been expelled from school for their beliefs and serving in an orphanage, to being a "Zionist" because the Bahá'í World Centre is located in Israel.
Some are saved, though.
Nazanin Fatehi-is an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death for stabbing a man who allegedly tried to rape her and her 15-year-old niece, events occurring when she herself was a 17-year-old. After more than 2 years in jail, Fatehi was cleared of intentional murder, ordered her to pay diyeh (blood money for the death), and released on bail (January 2007). As of 2012, Fatehi's whereabouts were reported to be unknown to concerned supporters outside of Iran.
Let's say, war is over and Iran and America made peace. But, I want those mullahs to be taken to justice for killing innocent children and that no children will be wrongfully executed!!!
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